Dip one of Worldcon complete. They gave me a free ice cream cone, and I wondered if something terrible was about to happen, but then there was much GNU Terry Pratchett going on, so it might have been in his memory. I went to a couple of events where Phil Foglio (of Girl Genius fame) speeddrew illustrations to accompany filks and short stories, and I think he could definitely pull off drawing at a newpix per newpix rate. Oh, and EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE in the state of Washington (not really, but it seems like it, and there was a brush fire about four kilocues away from the con), so the planned stargazing event was a bust on account of smoke. I had been hoping to see something closer to this:

(But with Antares, of course.)

Overall a very baobabish dip!

Knight Temporal of the One True ComicBlitzGirl the Pink, Mopey Molpy Mome

SBN wrote:My pack is one smaller today. Smallest Wolpy will do the remainder of her waiting at Rainbow Bridge.

The life expectancy of wolpies (and meowlpies) is really frustrating: it's long enough that you can really see them as family members, but short enough that they always pass away too soon. Though I guess death of a loved one is always too soon.

I have a tortoise. It is true, she is not a pet to play with, but it is nice from time to time to see her munching away contently on a leaf of dandelion or a slice of watermelon. Very calming in a way... for over 30 years now. I expect that it is rather a problem whom to trust her with than having her leave before I will be failing to be able to care for her.

I would ott more but Worldcon has been eating all of my Time away. There's always something fun happening...reminds me of the old dips when the OTC was still running and you just didn't want to coma because you wanted to see what would happen next.

Anyway, more SREEE things happened todip: I went to a GRRM reading, GRRM of course being the inspiration for Paul & Storm's "Write Like the Wind", which in turn was ottified by yappobiscuits into "Blitz Like the Wind." (It's all RELATED.) Also I was enlisted to babysit a collection of small shiny upgoers for a couple of nopix.

lmjb1964 wrote:A decree for the decree: Suggestions on what organized sand I should get. I asked this before the OTTerCon, but ran out of time to shop and got an inexpensive Windows tablet for the conference. It didn't work all that well and I hate it. I use Apple stuff, but it's so ch*rping expensive. I might just bite the bullet and get a Macbook Air, because I want something really portable, but I wish it had an ethernet port. Or maybe I should just get some netbook? Oh, and I want to get it before WednesdipH, when I hop on a train to travel across the country. Help!

If you prefer Apple stuff but don't want to fork over too much money, you could try to get a second-hand Macbook. Alternatively, if you don't mind doing a bit of <computery stuff>, you could get a cheap netbook and install Linux on it; you can make that behave like Mac OS with a bit of configuration. Cuegandix is a bit short notice to do that, but at least it means you won't necessarily be left with another device you don't like.

It is also possible to get a netbook and install Mac OSX on it - for a while, my main computer was an Asus Eee PC running Snow Keyboard. But it requires research to find out which models work best, and as always when using software not for its intended purpose, you must be prepared for mustard.

(Also Cuegandix has already passed, but it hasn't yet back on NP2357. )

I missed the last pages decree, but an unfinished project I am working on is Saera - which is a voice recognition personal assistant for Linux-based mobile devices (like Siri, Google Now, Cortana etc). A big difference between it and the commercial ones though is that it doesn't send your audio off to somebody elses servers for processing, but instead performs all recognition on the device itself.

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Nah, I have someone for that. My parents are fans of various games, for example The Great Dalmuti, Saboteur and recently Dominion. I'll find something at my local bricks and mortar gameshop.

I could never get my mother to play Dominion, and I think she'd prefer if I didn't play it either. I do sometimes play with my siblings though. Actually, last time we played was a couple of wips ago while my parents were away on a trip.

SBN wrote:My pack is one smaller today. Smallest Wolpy will do the remainder of her waiting at Rainbow Bridge.

Largest Wolpy, Middle-Sized Wolpy, and Grand-Helper Wolpy request that in her memory you throw a tennis ball to a wolpy, or snuggle with a molpy or family member.

SBN, let me add my sympathies for Smallest Wolpy. At least she'll be in a place where there's plenty of balls to catch, squirpies to chase, and water to play in (but none for baths.) It's been a long while since I've had a pet, but I saw with sorrow as a friend's wolpy went down that road.

In my skim-blitzing I saw NoMouse's return with his dream-OTColoured. Wow. Boababs. Cool .And I saw posts from Opiboble, too.Also, posts from StormAngel with neat sandcastles.Congrats to azule on xis 2000 milestone."Hi" to imjb! Glad to hear you had a awesomeful Time with ggh (and Little Wonder).

I finally saw something at mscha's "The Sky" OTTification.Like the beginning of dawn:

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5 Aug 15H

I haven't seen a raptor, but I did catch an aircastle:

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4 Aug 15H

However. one dark night, I thought I heard a...

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14 Aug 15H

I'm also having fun looking at your webcam and playing the previous day's movie, since for the most part you're at about midnight or so when I get home. I do, sometimes, look in during the morning before I go to FFS, but that's rare. But that's a great thing you have there.

And one bit of un-finished business. I posted a version of this back on NP2041 and afterwards {much after} discovered I made a couple of spelling errors. No one said anything, but I think that might of been because I over-reacted once to some teasing about another spelling mistake. (Sorry to SBN and to everymolpy else.)Anywho... (to make a long story short) I corrected it, but before I could post it I got major computer m*stard. So without any more Waiting, here's the improved version:

So if there's any one version that is good enough to immortalize, let it be this one.

I am making a temporal edit to admit I screwed up. And to tell blitzers and wiki-fu experts that there's another version.

The Redundant Ones:

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Knight Temporal of the One True Comic {bestowed by BlitzGirl: NP 1315}

We are dreamers, shapers, singers, and makers. We study the mysteries of laser and circuit, crystal and scanner, holographic demons and invocations of equations. These are the tools we employ, and we know many things.

contents, which then were passed by Bucket Brigade to a Climbbot who shimmied up a Doublepost, and handed to a Flingbot, then flung via Archimedes's Lever towards a Blast Furnace, only to be caught in mid-air

I also picked up a number of little ketchup bottle pins. I have yet to determine whether wearing them helps with ketchup, but if someone wants one, PM me with your address and I'll send one, eventually.

Hi, pelrigg!

Oh, and I did get new organized sand. I decided to pay a lot of money and just get the Apple kind. I'm very happy with it. It is so wonderful to have working organized sand!

@Apologies to moody7277.

Really redundant:

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No, really!

You helped Addams stay in her home, and gave her a better life. She thanks you, and so do I.smiley by yappo

Quick check-in from Worldcon, where all the filking is reminding me fondly of the live ottifications performed on the final night of OTTerCon. There are a lot of small fuzzy molpies around (there was even one sent up to the ISS) since the writer of "The Trouble with Tribbles" is the con's Guest of Honor. There are also many people wearing exciting hats (and other gear) tonight for the costume Masquerade. Hats! Most memorable I've seen in terms of hats is one that looks like a giant jellyfish, lights up, and covers the person's whole body with tendrils.

The smokey haze in the sky continues, complemented by even more fires and a dust storm todip. Looks a bit like this:

But with the sun more of an ominous bloody-red color. Also breathing sucks.

And now, if you're anything like me,

Knight Temporal of the One True ComicBlitzGirl the Pink, Mopey Molpy Mome